Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Corporation

Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.

Siemens Industry, Inc.

Georg Muenzel

George Lo

Jörg Neidig

Thomas Gruenewald

Gustavo Arturo Quiros Araya

Arquimedes Martinez Canedo

Hartmut Ludwig

Elisabeth Heindl

Swen Elpelt

Kai Liu

Bernhard Gaissmaier

Andreas Von Schwerin

Colleen Poerner

Yufeng Li

Graph databases directly relate data items in the data store with edges that represent relationships between the data items. The relationships link the data items together and often permit complex sets of related data items to be retrieved with a single operation. New query systems and techniques for graph databases provide prediction of non-explicit connections between data items that further enhances the efficiency and utility of graph databases, as well as extend their industrial applications.

Predictive graph query system for automation engineering systems

A system for configuration and control of a device includes a device processor includes at least two processing cores. Device firmware executes on a first processing core and a device-based engineering server executes on a second processing core. A web server running on the device-based engineering server includes a webApp providing web-based functionality for configuration and control of the device. The webApp is downloaded from the web server to the user's browser. A hypervisor manages communication between the device firmware and the device-based engineering server. A communication path established in the hypervisor for communicating a configuration or control instruction to the device firmware. The configuration or control instruction is initiated by a user via a web browser. The users web browser may run on a computer workstation that does not otherwise meet processing requirements of an engineering system for the device.

Device-based engineering system for programmable logic controllers

A method for managing power consumption within a facility includes receiving a request to reduce a total level of power consumption within the facility by a predetermined measure (S). A plurality of operating parameters indicative of how much power is being consumed by each of a plurality of facility systems is received (S). A corresponding cost associated with a marginal power reduction is determined for each of the plurality of facility systems using the received plurality of operating parameters (S). A power allocation to the facility system of the plurality of facility systems that is determined to have a lowest marginal cost of power reduction is incrementally reduced (S). The steps of determining a corresponding cost and incrementally reducing power are repeated until the total level of power consumption within the facility has been reduced by the predetermined measure.

Integrated demand response for energy utilization

A computer readable medium embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for hosting components implemented in different computer readable languages within one process. The method includes instantiating a container within a single process, creating a hosting environment for each of a plurality of components, and wherein loading the components by respective environments and wherein the hosting environments are objects instantiated within the container and within the one process, and wherein the plurality of components are implemented in respective a computer readable language, and instantiating a container communication framework object within the container and the one process for processing serialized messages of the components, wherein specific language adapters convert data types of the components to a common implementation, wherein the messages of the plurality of components are processed within the container.

Container for disparate software components

A supervisory control system and display client are disclosed. The supervisory control system generates a graphical display representative of an operational status of operational components in a plant, facility or process being supervised. There are typically several types of operational components in the plant, facility or process. The system includes a server in communication with the operational components via a network. The server maintains a plurality of equipment unit objects, each of the equipment unit objects having one or more parameters representative of the operational status of the operational components. A display client is in communication with the server. The display client stores one or more equipment symbol objects, each of the one or more equipment symbol objects defining a graphical representation of one of the one or more operational components in the graphical display. The display client also stores a picture object that describes a location of each of the one or more operational components in the graphics display. The display client requests an update of the graphical display and receives equipment unit objects from the server. A processor in the display client generates the graphical display by processing the one or more equipment unit objects with the picture object and with the one or more equipment symbol objects.

Method and system for processing graphics in a supervisory control system

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Plainsboro, NJ, United States of America

Georg Muenzel